As the beta’s daughter, who was born from a strong bloodline, a bond was made with her wolf to the hundreds of wolves in the pack. Growing up, Diana felt that the bond connecting her to her pack mates was both a privilege and a burden to bear – especially those who were related by blood to her parents.

It was a privilege to sense the thrumming lives of the people inside her core, but that privilege came with a price. For every death of her pack mates and relatives, the snapping of threads that connected her to them was like a stab of dagger in her heart.

One death...